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Ratings agency Moody’s held Romania’s long-term issuer and senior unsecured ratings at Baa3 on August 24, saying that the country’s economic outlook...
It’s the footwear which gives them away. Sandals, trainers, sometimes even flip-flops. It’s why Romanians call them pantofari, not an easy word to translate...
Like many of the countries of emerging Europe, Albania has been facing a demographic problem in recent years. Data from the 2018 National Report: Youth in Albania...
With the remarkable sight of rain-soaked Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović consoling her team after the World Cup final in Moscow still fresh in the memory, it...
In the US and Western Europe, private debt has become mainstream and an investment class of its own. In Romania, as well as the majority of CEE countries, it is still a...
Bosnian security services prevented Russian writer Zakhar Prilepin (whose real name is Yevgeny Prilepin) from entering the country on August 23. Mr Prilepin was...
Since the beginning of 2017, when Belarus first allowed visitors from 80 countries to enter the country visa-free, Minsk has seen the policy have a hugely positive...
Banca Transilvania (BT) – whose largest shareholder is the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) – has overtaken Banca Comercială...
Hadley Dean, the CEO of EPP - the dual JSE and LuxSE-listed Poland-focused property group - tells Shakhil Shah why the retail market is so strong in parts of CEE.
The Council of Europe’s Committee of Experts on the Evaluation of Anti-Money Laundering Measures and the Financing of Terrorism, known as Moneyval, states in a new...
“Slovenia needs a comprehensive tax reform that rebalances the tax mix away from employee social security contributions (SSCs) towards personal income tax (PIT) and less...